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Referral Marketing Tips: Why Customer Referrals Are the Greatest Form of Marketing

by | Updated on: Aug 22, 2023 | Digital Marketing Guides, How-To Guides | 6 comments

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Referral Marketing Tips – Why customer referrals are important for your business growth: The Internet provides numerous ways for users to share information in ways that are not possible with other communication channels. Social media, for example, can easily spread your brand’s message, as long as you’re targeting the right customers. The Internet also serves as a vast repository of vital information – accessible by anyone, anytime, and anywhere. It only takes a single search for a prospect to find hundreds of opinions about your company.

The immediacy of the Internet also gives way to an increase in customer referrals and viral campaigns. Below you’ll find some reasons why it’s crucial for your business to take advantage of the explosive growth of referral marketing.

Customer referrals are inexpensive to deploy

Referral marketing is the only type of marketing where much of the heavy lifting is left to consumers. This doesn’t mean that you should take a passive approach and leave it up to consumers to spread the word about your business. Referrals don’t happen by chance. Take a proactive approach and implement a customer referral program, and you’ll see an increase in the number, quality, and consistency of referrals you receive.

Once your system is implemented, you can leave it up to your customers to communicate information about your product and brand to others – under your watchful eyes of course. Even with your initial investment to put a system in place, customer referrals are cheaper than most other forms of marketing because communication costs are “subsidized.”

Customer referrals give strength to your other marketing efforts 

Customer referrals generate after-effects that can bolster your marketing programs. Generally, viral campaigns can significantly extend your reach while reinforcing your message to your target audience. For instance, if you create a viral ad, it will be shared and talked about on thousands of blogs, forums, and social media. Your loyal fans will not only share your ad, but will also include their experiences of doing business with you. This will generate more visibility and new leads for your business.

Customer referrals can go places your ads can’t

Consumers today have unprecedented control over the media and content they’re exposed to. From the ubiquitous smartphone, to digital video recorders and blogs, consumers are accessing information when they want it. There’s a growing community of “content creators” online who contribute to the Internet via blogs, product reviews, recommendations, video channels, and podcasts. These people are authorities in their own right, and your target audience trusts them once they make a recommendation.

The effect of one positive blog post from a well-trafficked blog could have more of an impact than an ad played a hundred times on television. People buy from people, and if you want to bolster the trust factor of your brand, nothing beats word of mouth.

When it comes to selling your brand to your target audience, there’s nothing more compelling than a recommendation from your customers. No website copy or multimedia ad is as effective as customer referrals. Embrace this form of marketing and see what a difference it makes to your business.

Why referral marketing is awesome [Infographic]

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Author:- Debajyoti Banerjee is the Founder, Director & CEO of Seven Boats - A leading digital marketing agency & digital marketing training institute in India since 2011. He is a TEDx Speaker, Google & LinkedIn Certified Digital Marketer & Trainer, Brand Strategist, Consultant & Entrepreneur. B. Tech in computer engineering & post graduate diploma in Marketing, Debajyoti has 18+ years of domain experience and successful track records in digital marketing services & digital marketing training with 500+ clients & 100K+ students in 165+ countries. He has been invited & felicitated by 25+ Top B Schools & universities including London Business School, AICTE ATAL FDP, UGC-HRDC, IIM Shillong, IIM ROHTAK, IIT KGP, IIT Guwahati, Calcutta University, Ranchi University, St. Xavier’s, Brainware, Techno India, JIS Group, Jaypee Group, Shikshayatan Foundation, IIEST Shibpur, Bhavan’s, ICFAI Business School, GITAM Deemed University, Swami Vivekananda Group of Institutions & many more. He has been awarded with more than 20 national awards and he has received notable media coverage. Learn more

 

6 Comments

  1. Jorge Jobs

    Referral Marketing is one of the best forms of marketing you can do because referrals are generally become the best types of customers.

    Reply
    • Debajyoti Banerjee

      Thanks Jorge. True. Customer referrals & word of mouth are the best marketing tools.

      Reply
  2. Desmond @ ReferralCandy

    Great post, Debajyoti!

    I fully agree with you. Customer referral programs can not only help marketers/retailers punch above their weight, but are also easier to deploy than many would think.

    In fact, we’ve recently created an infographic on ‘Why Referral Marketing is Awesome’, which nicely complements some of the valuable points you have raised. We’re keen to know your thoughts on this!

    https://www.referralcandy.com/blog/referral-marketing-awesome-infographic

    Reply
    • Debajyoti Banerjee

      Thanks Desmond for your comment. Nice & very relevant infographic on referral marketing.

      Reply
  3. Andy

    Sound advice, Debajyoti. You’re far more likely to win new business from a referral than a cold call or website enquiry. Keep your clients close, it’s all about the network

    Reply
    • Debajyoti Banerjee

      Truly said Andy. Referral marketing is one of the great marketing strategies.

      Reply

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